On Friday, October 8, 2010, a U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts were blasted into space inside an upgraded Soyuz spacecraft. They will now spend two days traveling to the International Space Station.
On Tuesday, June 15, 2010 (U.S. time), the Russian Soyuz spacecraft TMA-19 launched one cosmonaut and one astronauts to the International Space Station.
NASA announces that U.S. astronaut Mike Fossum, along with a Russian cosmonaut and a Japanese astronaut, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 2:12 a.m. local time.
The Russian Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft was launched on April 5, 2011 (Russian time) from the same launch pad used nearly 50 years ago to launch the first human into space, Yuri Gagarin. We have been space travelers for 50 years!
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: SpaceThree new crewmembers -- one American, one Russian, and one Japanese -- to the International Space Station were rocketed into space on Saturday, July 14, 2012 (in the United States), or Sunday, July 15, 2012, (at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan).
The Russians launched its Progress spacecraft to the International Space Station on Wednesday January 25, 2012 (local time at the Kazakhstan launch site), with about 2.9 tons of supplies and equipment onboard for the ISS Expedition 30 crew.
Written by: William AtkinsNASA astronaut Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, and Dutch astronaut Andre Kuopers have landed back on Earth after half a year in space.
{loadposition william08}The threesome landed on the southern Central Asian steppes of Kazakhstan at 4:14 a.m.
An unmanned Russian Progress supply ship blew up on Wednesday, August 24, 2011, when the upper stage of its Soyuz-U booster malfunctioned 5 minutes, 20 seconds after launch. It was on its way to the International Space Station.
NASA just released a photograph taken by a crew member of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft as it backed away from the International Space Station while the space shuttle Endeavour was docked to it.
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